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according to the surmise of Professor Reichenow. And , 

 to give another, I may point out that as yet no success j 

 has been met with in the efforts to cope with the rinder- ! 

 pest. For Germans there is a wide field for labour in 

 Africa a held which, with more experience, we shall learn 

 to cultivate better. 



Xo one is in a better position to realise this than 

 the wanderer who has spent years in the wilderness, 

 striving strenuously to wring from velt and marsh 

 and forest the secrets they have withheld from mortal 

 eyes. 



It we are to explore these regions and save their 

 treasures tor posterity, we must make haste ; tor many 

 races of natives with their ancient habits and customs, 

 and with them the animal life, are dying away under the 

 breath of civilisation all too speedily. 



Here I am moved to speak again of my trusty 

 followers, who shared my sufferings and rny delights so 

 many thousands ot times. Hardly a single one of them 

 did I ever find not eager at any time to set out with me 

 on a new expedition into the interior, and in most of them 

 i had devoted and grateful servants. 



I must give a thought to those also who lost their life 

 in my service, and whose bones now lie bleaching beneath 

 the equatorial sun. 



The years I spent out there come back to my memory 

 as years of interest, happiness, and enjoyment, drawing 

 out all my powers to the utmost. The velt lies out- 

 stretched before me now flooded with sunlight, now 

 bathed in the mystical radiance of the moon alive with 



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